# Data centers sit unused 85% of the time

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-09-10
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash Network - The Decentralized Compute Marketplace (The Crypto Conversation (Brave New Coin))
- **Watch at:** 00:09:13 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/akash-network-the-decentralized-compute-marketplace/id1471243424?i=1000669078512
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-09-10-data-centers-sit-unused-85-of-the-time-ctcy/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Data centers sit unused 85% of the time," Akash Network - The Decentralized Compute Marketplace (The Crypto Conversation (Brave New Coin)), 10 Sept 2024, 00:09:13. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/akash-network-the-decentralized-compute-marketplace/id1471243424?i=1000669078512

## Quote — verbatim

> There are about 8.1 million data centers in the world... in these data centers, they only use 15% of the time. That means 85% of the time they're not being used... \[Intuit\] during tax season, their compute is used 95% of their capacity or higher... Off tax season, they only use 5% or less.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The Airbnb analogy's supply side (quote spans into the 00:09:58 block); he notes AWS itself was born from Amazon's idle retail capacity — "what Amazon did to themselves is what Akash is doing for the rest of them" (00:10:40).